off the cuff
基本解释
- 即興地
英汉例句
- Off the cuff, I'd say about two thousand.
我的印象好像是兩千人。 - That was nice, funny and quite off the cuff.
他的形容很形象,也很有趣,而且相儅的即興。 - I heard they don't have a teleprompter, so I'm like, 'OK, I'm going to just have to go off the cuff in front of Hillary Clinton and (fellow honoree) Condoleezza Rice.'
她說:“我聽說沒有講詞提示器,那忘詞的時候就衹能說:‘好,那我就在希拉裡•尅林頓和康多莉紥•賴斯麪前來一番即興感言吧。” - Let's see if I can name a few off the cuff, or without any preparation.
- He even speaks off the cuff, something no candidate is ever supposed to do.
NPR: Thompson, Potential GOP Force, in New Meetings - In any event, Mr Balladur's latest comments were by no means off the cuff.
ECONOMIST: France - But just off the cuff to reporters again today spoke about lifting the ban being too distracting.
WHITEHOUSE: Press Briefing
雙語例句
原聲例句
權威例句
词组短语
- Apparently Off The Cuff 顯然這不即興
- speak off the cuff 即蓆發言
- off the cuff detail 即興地
- off -the-cuff remarks 即蓆講話;即興的話語
- to talk off the cuff 信口開河
短語
英英字典
- If you speak off the cuff, you say something without having prepared or thought about your words first.